Re: Outlook for Pharmacy (was "Message for Carol")

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I'm not so sure that online Pharmacys are a good idea. I kow that
in my neck of the woods here in Jersey, a Pharmacolgist has to have
a degree ... has to know what drugs do to paitents. If they react
with other drugs etc.. They hold peoples lives in their hands. I
know they have to be licensed and know more than a doctor when it
comes to drugs. If that's the way it goes, then we better start
building more rehab centers, cause that's how easy my son got hooked
on Oxicton. No problem getting them onlne. A bigger problem keeping
him in enrolled in our metadone clinic.

On 5/11/06, Carol wrote:

> On 5/11/06, Mr. Blue wrote:
>> On 5/10/06, L wrote:
>>
>>> why not pharmacy? better pay, hours, etc. If I could start
>>> college again, I'd go into pharmacy. I'd already be rich by
>>> now.
>>
>> Since I have a biochemistry background, I've wondered about
>> this. My concern is that although the job market might be good
>> now, it might not be so great for pharmacists in the future. I
>> think we'll see increasing amounts of mail-order prescriptions
>> (less need for local pharmacists) and that perhaps some of
> those
>> mail-order prescription jobs will even be outsourced. Why does
>> counting and dispensing pills need to be done locally? I don't
>> see any reason why this work couldn't be done in Mexico nor
> even
>> in China, at least for medications that are not needed
> immediately.
>>
>> That's my concern about making a large investment of time and
>> money in Pharmacy.
> I sure don't know any rich pharmacists. The hospital
> pharmacists make roughly the same as nurse at least in my neck
> of the woods and have to work the same hours, off-shift,
> weekends holidays. store pharmacists are not well paid at all
> and with many store pharmacies having extended even 24hr
> service, weekends ect. Owning your own pharmacy has the same
> problems as being a solo attorney, high overhead, getting
> customers in the store, slow pay from medicare/medicaid etc. And
> with many of the HMOs requiring mail order prescriptions the
> pharmacist's job is in definite jeopardy for outsourcing.